April 13, 2017 File image of Jaden Fredrickson, a coal miner in Cheat Lake, West Virginia. Justin Merriman/Getty Images
The United States is rich in significant mineral deposits, and the country’s mining industry is at the forefront of innovative technologies aimed at weaning the country from dependence on China for fabricated metals and materials needed by domestic manufacturers.
But that won’t happen without an education system that emphasizes the hard sciences, especially geology, experts told the House Natural Resources Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee during a Dec. 3 hearing.
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